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  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,049 Views
19 Pages

8 January 2020

This article provides evidence and a rationale based on adaptive governance studies for why creating meaningful youth engagement should be understood in terms of intergenerational dialogue, collaboration, learning, and substantive decision-making in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,430 Views
13 Pages

The call for climate action has attracted global support, especially among youth. Over time, climate discourse has turned increasingly hostile toward both younger and older generations, potentially engendering intergenerational conflict when intergen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,349 Views
17 Pages

Through case studies of Chinese–African couples living together with Chinese parents, this paper examines conflict coordination within intergenerational relationships in the same living environment. Among intergenerational families living in Ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,401 Views
12 Pages

13 February 2023

Intergenerational programs are devoted to bringing older adults and children together because of their mutual benefits for both parties, such as reduction of ageism, relationship building, and shared learning. This intergenerational practice program...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,339 Views
16 Pages

Is Virtual Communication Possible in Intergenerational Programs? The SIMUL Project

  • Miriam González-Afonso,
  • María del Carmen Estévez-Moreira,
  • Andrea Delgado-Castro and
  • David Pérez-Jorge

28 March 2023

Intergenerational relationships are becoming increasingly rare. Thus, intergenerational programs are a strategy to establish relationships between generations. This article describes the socio-educational experience of the third edition of the SIMUL...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,148 Views
11 Pages

Key Considerations to the Introduction of Intergenerational Practice to Australian Policy

  • Katrina Radford,
  • Janna Anneke Fitzgerald,
  • Nerina Vecchio,
  • Jennifer Cartmel,
  • Ryan Bruce Gould and
  • Jennifer Kosiol

Intergenerational practice programs provide purposeful interactions between generations. While research reports improved social and behavioral outcomes for cohorts, no study has explored both expert and potential consumer perceptions of the implement...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,479 Views
30 Pages

Intergenerational Practice in the Community—What Does the Community Think?

  • Gail Kenning,
  • Nicole Ee,
  • Ying Xu,
  • Billy L. Luu,
  • Stephanie A. Ward,
  • Micah B. Goldwater,
  • Ebony Lewis,
  • Katrina Radford,
  • Kaarin J. Anstey and
  • Ruth Peters
  • + 3 authors

7 October 2021

The many changes that occur in the lives of older people put them at an increased risk of being socially isolated and lonely. Intergenerational programs for older adults and young children can potentially address this shortfall, because of the percei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,185 Views
20 Pages

The COVID-19 crisis has caused a huge negative shock to economic activities worldwide, leading to a reduction in income and changes in income distribution. Intergenerational mobility is an important indicator of sustainable social development. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
17,303 Views
20 Pages

The Effects of Parental Divorce on the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime

  • Steve G.A. Van de Weijer,
  • Terence P. Thornberry,
  • Catrien C.J.H. Bijleveld and
  • Arjan A.J. Blokland

10 February 2015

This study first examines the effects of parental divorce and paternal crime on offspring offending. Then, it tests whether parental divorce moderates the intergenerational transmission of crime. Diversity within the offending population is taken int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,436 Views
14 Pages

9 March 2022

Based on glove puppetry, a traditional cultural pursuit of Taiwan, this study designed a virtual reality (VR) intergenerational game to bring together the elderly and young participants. In the game, a system of cooperation and sharing was constructe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,364 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of a Virtual Environment for Intergenerational Learning

  • Greg Cronan,
  • Janna Anneke Fitzgerald,
  • Katrina Radford and
  • Gabriela Di Perna

2 March 2023

Few intergenerational programs have focused on virtual learning. This paper explores the impact that a virtual intergenerational learning program had on primary school students and older adults at a residential aged care home. This study reports on t...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,105 Views
9 Pages

1 November 2023

Digital storytelling (DST) has the primary goal of giving underrepresented voices a platform to be seen and heard. Adding an intergenerational dimension can bring about many other benefits for all participants as well as the wider community. This art...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
20,801 Views
12 Pages

23 October 2018

The contribution of the present research is to link the global consensus in international legal scholarship on the principle of intergenerational equity to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The methodology used is, first, to provide a literat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,116 Views
20 Pages

Intergenerational Entrepreneurship to Foster Sustainable Development: A Methodological Training Proposal

  • Adriana Perez-Encinas,
  • Isidro de Pablo,
  • Yolanda Bueno and
  • Begoña Santos

27 August 2021

Intergenerational entrepreneurial initiatives are aimed at addressing the needs and opportunities of certain social groups and have the potential of becoming successful business projects. Moreover, they are a key to undertake sustainability practices...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,676 Views
17 Pages

Big and Mini: A Promising Intergenerational Program for Social Connections

  • Ling Xu,
  • Noelle L. Fields,
  • Zhirui Chen,
  • Allen Zhou,
  • Aditi Merchant and
  • Anthony Zhou

Introduction: To help older adults cope with loneliness during COVID-19, a weekly, telephone-based intergenerational program called “Big and Mini” was created in April 2020 to link young and older adults together. As part of an evaluation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,554 Views
22 Pages

Scoping Review: Intergenerational Resource Transfer and Possible Enabling Factors

  • Eliza Lai-Yi Wong,
  • Jennifer Mengwei Liao,
  • Christopher Etherton-Beer,
  • Loretta Baldassar,
  • Gary Cheung,
  • Claire Margaret Dale,
  • Elisabeth Flo,
  • Bettina Sandgathe Husebø,
  • Roy Lay-Yee and
  • Eng-Kiong Yeoh
  • + 7 authors

We explore the intergenerational pattern of resource transfer and possible associated factors. A scoping review was conducted of quantitative, peer-reviewed, English-language studies related to intergenerational transfer or interaction. We searched A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,959 Views
21 Pages

7 March 2022

Based on the 1% sample survey of the National Population Census (2015), this paper empirically analyzes the impact of intergenerational occupational mobility levels on labor migration in terms of push and pull factors. We found that increasing the de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,377 Views
14 Pages

Intergenerational Factors Influencing Household Cohabitation in Urban China: Chengdu

  • Meimei Wang,
  • Yongchun Yang,
  • Mengqin Liu and
  • Huailiang Yu

Family composition impacts individual consumption habits, which may potentially transform urban integral space structure. Due to the reform in the housing system at the end of the 1990s and increases in residents’ income, houses became more affordabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,620 Views
13 Pages

Intergenerational education mobility is a key dimension of social mobility and explores the extent to which educational attainment is transmitted across generations within a society. The implications of low education mobility concern both equity (eve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,505 Views
17 Pages

30 December 2015

Using data on adults ages 55 and over from the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH-2), this study models the main and interactive effects of religious involvement and race/ethnicity on four items of attitudes towards i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,337 Views
17 Pages

Intergenerational Taekwondo Program: A Narrative Review and Practical Intervention Proposal

  • Yongseop Kim,
  • Junhyoung Kim,
  • Jung-Min Lee,
  • Dong-Chul Seo and
  • Hyun Chul Jung

Taekwondo is a modernized martial art that includes various combinations of hand and kicking techniques and core values of Taekwondo philosophy such as courtesy, mutual respect, and self-control. Physical inactivity is highly prevalent among older ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,653 Views
13 Pages

Improving intergenerational mobility is crucial for enhancing the efficacy of human capital, ensuring social vitality, and supporting sustainable long-term economic growth. Based on the China Labor-force Dynamic Survey (CLDS) of 2014, this paper empi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,497 Views
33 Pages

25 September 2025

Historic and cultural towns are undergoing spatial restructuring and memory ruptures in the context of urban–rural transformation. Collective memory depends on the continuity of public space, with generational differences playing a key role in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,956 Views
12 Pages

22 May 2018

This article addresses a significant gap in trauma theory and philosophy; namely, it develops a partial theory of the subject of intergenerational trauma. This is accomplished through a close examination of Catherine Malabou’s theory of the sub...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
14,368 Views
16 Pages

Intergenerational Learning and Its Impact on the Improvement of Educational Processes

  • Juan Manuel Trujillo-Torres,
  • Inmaculada Aznar-Díaz,
  • María Pilar Cáceres-Reche,
  • Trinidad Mentado-Labao and
  • Aleix Barrera-Corominas

9 October 2023

The promotion of intergenerational dialogue is postulated as one of the most frequently used strategies to promote meaningful learning. The objective is to analyze the impact of intergenerational dynamics on the learning process. To this end, this wo...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,410 Views
23 Pages

17 May 2021

As a response to the call for reimagining early childhood education for social sustainability in the future, this conceptual paper aims to suggest revisiting and strengthening the case to include intentional intergenerational engagements and programm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,437 Views
22 Pages

Intergenerational Transmission of Domestic Violence in Peruvian Families: A Qualitative Study

  • Flor Vilches,
  • Luisa Mazeyra,
  • Andrea Quintanilla and
  • Luis Ramos-Vargas

23 June 2025

Domestic violence is a public health problem that has important consequences for the physical, mental and social well-being of individuals and their families, leading to negative effects on future generations, which are exacerbated or inhibited by in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,348 Views
16 Pages

Fostering Social Sustainability through Intergenerational Engagement in Australian Neighborhood Parks

  • Tracy L. Washington,
  • Debra Flanders Cushing,
  • Janelle Mackenzie,
  • Laurie Buys and
  • Stewart Trost

16 August 2019

Social sustainability includes aspects of equity and is associated with two of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals focused on promoting good health and well-being for all ages. Yet, this pillar of sustainability is considered the least u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,542 Views
24 Pages

Social exclusion related to the unemployment of vulnerable population groups constitutes a crucial limitation to achieving a sustainable world. In particular, young and senior populations have specific characteristics that put them at risk of exclusi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,094 Views
17 Pages

5 January 2012

Moral philosophers and economists have evaluated the intergenerational problem of climate change by applying the whole gamut of theories on distributive justice. In this article, however, it is argued that intergenerational justice cannot imply the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,509 Views
11 Pages

Much research has attested to the benefits of intergenerational programs (IGPs) for older and younger participants, but there is a lack of understanding about what motivates them to participate and to persevere. We conducted structured interviews wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,718 Views
16 Pages

14 November 2022

Guided by the theoretical frameworks of communication accommodation theory and conflict management, this study examines U.S. older participants’ (65 or older) written conflict scenario either with a grandchild or a nonfamily young adult. Using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
12,216 Views
23 Pages

29 March 2023

This study defined intergenerational integration in communities at a theoretical level and verified whether a series of measures could facilitate negotiation and communication between community residents and other stakeholders to generate a positive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,619 Views
22 Pages

1 December 2018

Based on longitudinal data from the Cross-National Equivalent File 1980–2016 (CNEF 1980–2016) the paper analyzes the extent of income inequality and capability deprivation and the driving forces of the intergenerational transmission of so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,467 Views
11 Pages

Life satisfaction, as an important indicator of subjective well-being, is crucial for older adults. This study aims to examine the effects of downward intergenerational financial and practical support on life satisfaction among older adults in China,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,159 Views
18 Pages

3 July 2020

This article examines sustainability from a policy perspective rooted in environmental economics and environmental ethics. Endorsing the Brundtland Commission stance that each generation should have undiminished opportunity to meet its own needs, I e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,209 Views
29 Pages

21 December 2024

Intergenerational sharing promotes social cohesion within communities by encouraging dialogue and understanding across different age groups. Nevertheless, existing research has inadequately delved into the human experiences and meaning-making process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,407 Views
18 Pages

Development and Implementation of an Intergenerational Bonding Program in a Co-Located Model: A Case Study in Singapore

  • I-Ling Yeh,
  • Sebastian Ye Xun Wong,
  • Lydia Safrina Binte Safaruan,
  • Yuan Qi Kang,
  • May S. T. Wong and
  • Ingrid M. Wilson

29 November 2022

There is a well-established body of evidence that intergenerational bonding programs (IGPs) can improve the overall well-being of older adults and strengthen relationships and understanding between generations. There is limited literature on the expe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,823 Views
14 Pages

The Role of Heart Rate Levels in the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime

  • Steve Van de Weijer,
  • Rinke De Jong,
  • Catrien Bijleveld,
  • Arjan Blokland and
  • Adrian Raine

8 September 2017

Several prospective multigenerational studies have shown that crime runs in the family, while empirical research on the biological causes of crime has also established that low heart rate is related to antisocial behavior. This study examines whether...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,156 Views
10 Pages

Even though an extensive body of previous research has examined the association between received intergenerational support and the well-being outcomes of older adults in a wide variety of contexts, few studies have been conducted to explore the impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,233 Views
17 Pages

14 October 2020

The intergenerational transmission of an occupation between two generations of frontline workers in Chinese factories shows a copy–paste phenomenon, whereby a new generation of workers not only undertakes the same work as their parents but also...

  • Article
  • Open Access
579 Views
23 Pages

19 December 2025

Demographic trends over the last decades and future projections clearly indicate a steady increase in the proportion of older adults (65+) relative to both the working-age (15–64) and child populations (0–15) across Europe. This demograph...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
16,607 Views
14 Pages

Intergenerational Effects on the Impacts of Technology Use in Later Life: Insights from an International, Multi-Site Study

  • Shannon Freeman,
  • Hannah R. Marston,
  • Janna Olynick,
  • Charles Musselwhite,
  • Cory Kulczycki,
  • Rebecca Genoe and
  • Beibei Xiong

As the use of technology becomes further integrated into the daily lives of all persons, including older adults, it is important to investigate how the perceptions and use of technology intersect with intergenerational relationships. Based on the int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,844 Views
17 Pages

16 December 2022

Formed alongside the arrival of the first Korean immigrants in Hawaii in 1903, the Korean American Protestant Church has played a significant role in the social, political, and religious lives of Koreans in the United States. However today, membershi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,084 Views
12 Pages

This study adopted an empirical approach to examine the effectiveness of integrating intergenerational education with food and agricultural education to increase students’ affection for their learning environment. The intergenerational food and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
14,591 Views
15 Pages

10 July 2017

The main purpose of this paper is to review the benefits and factors to be taken into consideration for the design of intergenerational digital games. We conducted a systematic in Scopus, Web of Science, PsicInfo, Pubmed and Science Direct, finally i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,106 Views
8 Pages

The demand for intergenerational exchange is growing in the world, where the size of a family is becoming smaller. To promote intergenerational exchange, it is important to know whether different stages of child age have different effects. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,519 Views
17 Pages

28 June 2024

Family structures are diverse, with single-parent families being special. Single-parent families have garnered interest regarding their impact on their children’s development in relation to gender roles and social adaptation. This study investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,329 Views
23 Pages

25 February 2025

This study assesses the predictions of future mobility rates and tenure choice behaviors by characterizing older households by age and place, focusing on the role of intergenerational networks. This study employed mixed effects logistic regression al...

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